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    It is not the case that Dennett's heterophenomenological method holds that personal-level reports are the primary evidence base for attributing intentional content to cognitive systems.

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    • 1.Personal reports are often unreliable, confabulated, or inaccessible to agents' own conscious awareness.
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    • 2.Making reports 'primary' privileges articulate agents, excluding systems with intentionality but no linguistic capacity to report.
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    • 3.Intentional content exists independently of whether agents can report it; neural mechanisms determine content, not introspective accuracy.
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    • 1.First-person reports are the only direct access we have to what agents actually experience and intend.
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    • 2.Attributing intentional content without consulting an agent's own descriptions risks imposing external theoretical frameworks rather than capturing genuine mental states.
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    • 3.Heterophenomenology avoids the reductionism of pure behaviorism by treating reports as data rather than dismissing subjective experience entirely.
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